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Doug Casey’s International Man Subscribe FREE here Climate scientists are not prophets. Those who believe them on faith provide no good service to the pursuit of truth. Those who blame climate change for every storm or forest fire are silly. Equally silly are those who claim that a particularly cold day proves that climate change is a farce. Fear of environmental calamity has caused human destruction before, such as when Rachel Carson’s book, Silent Spring, led to the banning of the pesticide DDT. As a result of the “success” of the environmentalist movement in banning DDT, an estimated 30-50 million people in Africa—mostly children—died...

by Jeff Thomas Doug Casey’s International Man Subscribe FREE here Roughly one hundred years ago, the people who “ran things,” — the drivers behind governments, big business and banking — formulated a concept which became known by a number of names, but, predominantly, as the “New World Order.” The concept was to put an end to unnecessary competition and warfare and have a central, unelected group of people run the entire world. It was not considered necessary to completely eliminate individual countries; the idea was to control them all centrally. It also didn’t necessarily mean that wars would end. Warfare can be quite useful for rulers, as...

by Joel Bowman Doug Casey’s International Man Subscribe FREE here All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. ~ George Orwell, Animal Farm When Aung San Suu Kyi assumed the office of state counsellor in her native Myanmar in 2016, the world’s press fêted the occasion as a triumph for freedom…in particular freedom of the press. And yet, according to new figures compiled by local freedom of expression organization, Athan, the very press that hailed her victory as one of theirs is, once again, under fierce attack. Suu Kyi, a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, spent much...

by Jeff Thomas International Man Sign up for our FREE daily newsletter here. Whenever a movie has been a huge hit, the film industry tries to follow it up by doing a sequel. The sequel is almost invariably far more costly, as there’s the anticipation by those who create it that it will be an even bigger blockbuster than the original. The Great Depression of the 1930’s is seen by most people to be the be-all and end-all of economic catastrophes and there’s good reason for that. Although the economic cycle has always existed, the period leading up to October 1929 was...

by Doug Casey International Man Sign up for our free newsletter here. There have been a fair number of references to the subject of “phyles” in Casey Research publications over the years. This essay will discuss the topic in detail. Especially how phyles are likely to replace the nation-state, one of mankind’s worst inventions. Now might be a good time to discuss the subject. We’ll have an almost unremitting stream of bad news, on multiple fronts, for years to come. So it might be good to keep a hopeful prospect in mind. Let’s start by looking at where we’ve been. I...

by John Hunt, MD Initially published in a previous version at Casey Daily Dispatch At the Foundation for Economic Education Conference (FEECON) in 2017, I met Bill Frezza. He’s been teaching a critical lesson about equality, learned from the horrors of the AT&T telephone monopoly. What follows, I mostly learned from him. After the invention of the telephone in the mid- to late-1800s, innovators produced great accomplishments as they strived to improve the technology to help us communicate. But that came to a sudden stop. In 1913 (the same ominous year in which the Federal Reserve Act was created, destroying the foundations...

By: Jeff Thomas Link: International Man Sign up for free: here. The sign above is located in the state of Chiapas in Mexico. In English, it says, “You are in the territory of Zapatista in Rebellion. Here, the people give the orders and the government obeys.” Well, of course, what that really means is that the Zapatistas give the orders, not the people as a whole. Still, the people generally regard the Zapatistas as being more representative of their wishes (and less parasitical) than the government. Mexicans are further along than, say, Europeans or Americans in understanding the true role of government....

by Joel Bowman International Man Almost ten years have passed since Satoshi Nakamoto unleashed his (or her… or their) revolutionary digital payment system onto the smoldering global financial landscape. Nakamoto’s revolutionary system – and currency of the same name – rose from the ashes of that post-2008 crisis world as a direct challenge to a traditional banking system that had so abused the trust of the people. Even today, a decade on, few stories capture the collective imagination of casual day traders and professional investors quite like a good Bitcoin yarn. Tales of “overnight” billionaires, epic market rallies (and crashes!) and...

By: Jeffrey James Higgins International Man The war on drugs is not going well. Despite decades of counter-drug efforts, at a cost of more than one trillion dollars, illegal drugs are still readily available on the black market. Worse, drug proceeds have become the lifeblood of terrorist groups, transnational criminal organizations, and street gangs. A 2014 Pew poll showed 67% of Americans prefer drug treatment to prosecution, yet prisons remain overcrowded with drug offenders and citizen’s civil liberties are routinely sacrificed for little gain. Now is the time to rethink drug legalization. I spent most of my 25-years in law...

by Jeff Thomas International Man In recent decades, political correctness has been very much on the rise in the countries that were formerly regarded as the “free world.” It’s important to remind those who live in these countries (North America, Europe, etc.), that political correctness is not by any means as prevalent in the rest of the world. In fact, the further removed a country is from the influence of the EU and US, the less prevalent political correctness is. The EU and US are, in fact, the epicentre of this movement… This is no accident. So, should political correctness be forcibly controlled?...

International Man Joel Bowman: Good afternoon, Trevor. Thanks very much for taking the time out of your busy schedule to talk with International Man. Trevor Jones: It’s a real pleasure, Joel. Welcome to my studio…and welcome to Edinburgh. JB: Yours is a fascinating story, Trevor. A real International Man tale. Perhaps we could begin with you sharing a little bit of your own background, how a Canadian-born artist traveled the world to discover inspiration and a new home here in bonny Scotland. TJ: It was actually completely unexpected. I left Canada in 1996 with a backpack. I went to Australia, Fiji and New Zealand....